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Mojo Workin' : The Old African American Hoodoo System /
This book explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. The author examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional schola...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana, IL :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prescript
- Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world : a thematic overview
- Disruptive intersection : slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo
- The search for High John the Conquer
- Crisis at the crossroads : sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's Black belt tradition from Emancipation to World War II
- The demise of Dr. Buzzard : Black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars
- Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid : Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters
- Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment
- Postscript.